Pine Creek Choir
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuo7ZZ5NZ9A
Saturday, 9 November 2024
STOP state or private contract logging within and around the proposed boundaries of the NSW Great Koala National Park
Cartoons of the Week
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Cathy Wilcox  |
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| David Rowe |
Donald Trump’s policy agenda could precipitate a global financial crisis and fuel inflation, one of the world’s leading analysts has warned, with fears Australians will suffer higher interest rates and a $36 billion hit to the domestic economy @theage pic.twitter.com/0VFn0oz7YY
— MattGolding Cartoons (@GoldingCartoons) November 7, 2024
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| First Dog On The Moon |
Friday, 8 November 2024
White supremacists said to hail from southern Queensland took a trip across the border into the Northern Rivers region in order to display their ignorance & racism to the world
ABC News, 5 November 2024:
The white supremacist group said they had travelled from Queensland to the mountain. (Supplied)
Police are investigating after a group of white supremacists posted on social media that they had staged a rally at a sacred Indigenous site in northern New South Wales.
Warning: This story may be offensive to some readers.
More than a dozen members of the balaclava-wearing group posted images on social media platform X on October 31, which they suggested were taken on a weekend at Wollumbin Mountain, formerly known as Mount Warning.
The site, which includes a summit track, is regarded as sacred to the Aboriginal community and remains closed to the public.
The group carried a flag consistent with the neo-Nazi National Socialist Network and held a banner which read, "Mt Warning for the White Man".
The men erected a sign with white supremacist messaging up at Wollumbin Mountain. (Supplied)
"Members of the National Socialist Network in Queensland travelled to climb Mount Warning last weekend," the post on X, formerly known as Twitter, said.
"White Australians established and maintained the trail for nearly a century and White Australians will decide who climbs it.
"Mt Warning for the White man!"
'Vile demonstration not welcome'
NSW Environment Minister Penny Sharpe described the actions as "vile" and "utterly disgusting", with National Parks referring the matter to police.
"I condemn those involved," the minister said in a statement.
"It is not acceptable anywhere in NSW, whether it be a sacred Indigenous site or on our city streets.
"To these far-right extremists and neo-Nazis, who are reportedly from Queensland, you and your vile demonstration are not welcome in NSW.
"Any attempts to spread hate are taken extremely seriously. I ask anyone with information to contact Crime Stoppers," she said....
On the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service website, Wollumbin is described as "highly significant to Aboriginal people, particularly the Bundjalung nation, as a place of sacred ceremonies linked to traditional law and custom".
"Wollumbin (Mount Warning) summit track and Aboriginal Place remains closed. Decisions about the future of the summit track will be made by the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service in accordance with the wishes of the Aboriginal custodians," it said.
This is not the first time this year that people have deliberately chosen to give offence and inflict hurt on the Aboriginal custodians of this sacred mountain.
In August 2024, former Young Liberal and 27 year member of the Liberal Party of Australia before being elected to the NSW Legislative Assembly as a member of the Libertarian Party, John Riddick and his Libertarian mate Marc Hendrickx, in an ignorant act of defiance and self-promotion climbed Wollumbin.
IMAGE: The Daily Mail, 3 August 2024
Thursday, 7 November 2024
TUESDAY 5th NOVEMBER 2025: It's all over bar the shouting. America has voted for its own demise as a world leader
— Justinian (@JustinianNews) November 6, 2024
Trump aka 'Putin's Bitch' declared victory after he reached and past the 270 Electoral College votes required to be declared elected - depending on which U.S. news outlet one was viewing - by around 6pm AEDST.
At first, second and third glance Australia remains unimpressed by the man and the politician.
There were isolated but genuine expressions of pleasure from some international quarters....
Wednesday, 6 November 2024
It's 2024 and after 236 years of relentless urban expansion across New South Wales there are only 13 breeding pairs of Beach Stone Curlew left in the state
ECHO, 5 November 2024:
A pair of critically endangered beach stone-curlews are nesting in the dunes on Clarkes Beach, they are one of only 13 breeding pairs in NSW.
Beachgoers are asked to stay off the sand dunes and leave nesting birds alone as their nests are just a small area of scraped sand.
‘It’s so important these birds are not disturbed because they only lay one egg and the chick is cared for by both parents for seven to 12 months,’ said Chloe Dowsett, Coast and Biodiversity Coordinator.
‘We are hoping people will do the right thing and play their part in helping these special birds expand their family.’
On other beaches spotted pardalotes and rainbow bee-eaters have been sighted nesting in the dunes with the Byron Bird Buddies rescuing a group of baby bee-eaters as the area surrounding their nest was being damaged by people trampling and climbing on the exposed dune.
‘All of these precious birds are easily disturbed by walkers, joggers and especially dogs so we are asking people to be aware and take extra care when they are on the beach,’ Ms Dowsett said.
Tuesday, 5 November 2024
Today in America an est. 262.08 million people will have woken & looked about to see how many among them decided to vote in the US presidential election which will decide the fate of a nation and its est. 335,893,238 men, women & children*
Basically the U.S. presidential election boils down to a two horse race - with the bookies (U.S. Electoral College) not the jockeys or the punters laying their bets (registered voters & their ballot papers) deciding the outcome for the country and the national economy.
On Tuesday, 5 November 2024 these two horses are attempting to win by a length:
Republican candidate & a former president, Donald John Trump, born 14 June 1946.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YA631bMT9g8
and
Democrat candidate & U.S. Vice President, Kamala Devi Harris, born 20 October 1964.
Momentum is on our side, so let's continue to organize, energize, mobilize, and make our voices heard.pic.twitter.com/Rc0ADVl2jz
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) November 3, 2024
ABC News Live (U.S.) will have 5 November live election day coverage on YouTube live from midnight Sydney time at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYpNU_3oPYk
ABC News (Australia) USA Votes live from 6am 6 November 2024 at
https://iview.abc.net.au/show/usa-votes-election-day
NBC News (US) Decision 2024 live blog updates at
and
NBC News voting results by state at
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-elections/president-results
NOTE:
* U.S. population numbers as of 1 July 2023 obtained at
https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/popest/2020s-national-detail.html
** Australia's east coast AEST is 16 hours ahead of Washington & New York and 19 hours ahead of San Francisco & Los Angeles.
Monday, 4 November 2024
Things are crook in Tallarook and Muswellbrook, the mood is down in Brisbane town, while everything's wrong in Woolongong and Woodenbong - in fact spirits seem to be low in many households all around Australia
The reason for this gloom? Well if household spending is any indicator, it is likely to be because cost-of-living pressures have been grinding people down for what seems like a long and tiresome 29 months.
The Reserve Bank cash rate target/interest rate may have stopped climbing at 4.35% and stayed there for the last 12 months but it's not showing signs of coming down anytime soon.
Households around the country are still having to tighten their belts in order to make pennies stretch as far as possible in the face of persistently high prices for goods and services.
Australian Bureau of Statistics, Monthly Household Spending Indicator: Experimental estimates of household spending, Reference period September 2024, Released 1/11/2024
In 2024 from 1 January to 30 September national household spending fell from 4.2% to 1.3% as most people focused on covering the essentials – food, medicines & other health costs, transport costs including petrol & car repairs, mortgage payments, rent, schools fees etc.
While household discretionary spending fell from 3.6% in January to 0.8% in September, as many chose to avoid clothing/footwear purchases and spent less on such thing as recreational activities & eating out.
Australian Bureau of Statistics, National household spending, March to September quarterly graph, September 2024
The national barometer for the level of tension in household spending choices is possible marked most clearly when it comes to the purchase of alcohol and tobacco.
National fall in spending on alcoholic beverages and tobacco – January to September 2024
NSW -12.3%
Vic -13.3%
Qld -8.8%
SA -11.9%
WA -2.9%
Tas -11.1%
NT -5.7%
ACT -6.7%.
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